On Mon, Oct 21, 2002, Karl-Michael Werzowa wrote:

> Thanks, it works.
> 
> 
> Added to  [ new_oids ]:
> mycustomexension=1.2.3.4.5
> entered into [ my_extensions ]
> mycustomextension=DER:01:01:FF
> used x509_extensions=my_extensions where needed.
> (names are dummynames)
> 
> Nevertheless, in the certs one only sees the oid. Suppose, that cleartext
> will be only available for standard-extensions.
> 
> 

Yes because OpenSSL has no way of knowing how to translate the encoded
extension to a human readable form for unsupported extensions. It can print out
the asn1parsed result of unsupported extensions by doing (for example):

openssl x509 -in cert.pem -noout -text -certopt ext_parse

Steve.
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